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Source: Erie Times-News, Pa.self storageNov. 06--Never mind a dime. Buddy, can you spare a $500 bill?Relax, I'm just kidding. I know no one has that kind of extra money, especially me. Not with two daughters in college, and Elton John tickets in my hands.But $500 is the amount of the deductible on my car insurance, which is why my Dodge Neon looks like a Dodge Dent with a bad bruise. Despite its name, it couldn't dodge the person who hit-and-ran us.Fixing a smooshed-in, slowly rusting passenger door isn't my highest priority, not when I don't have the cash and it wasn't my fault.Neon probably has an inferiority complex, anyhow. It's small, like I was growing up, the car equivalent of a picked-on pimply freshman. Hummers and SUVs mock as they idle next to Neon at red lights."Wow, how many AA batteries do you have under that hood?" "Timmy called; he wants his Matchbox back." "Are you Dodge Neon or Knee High?"This was the second time the Neon was hit. Both times were by impatient cars scooting onto Peach Street. The first tim迷利倉, my daughter was driving. The driver who hit her took off. Never stopped to check out the damage. Never stopped to see if she was shaken up, which she was.This time was worse. The driver pulled out in front of a Coke truck and into oncoming traffic. I caught a glimpse at the last second, and swerved just enough so she hit the rear passenger door, instead of the front, where my daughter was sitting.We pulled over. She did not. Though we got a partial license plate number and the color of the car, that was that. Denting a Dodge is not a high police priority.So Neon is out of luck, a victim of street crime. It's bad enough when Erie drivers zoom through red lights, yak on their cell phones and knit sweaters. Now they hit you and drive away.Does anyone sell insanity insurance?DAVE RICHARDS can be reached at 870-1703 or by e-mail at dave.richards@timesnews.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Erie Times-News (Erie, Pa.) Visit the Erie Times-News (Erie, Pa.) at .GoErie.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉